From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 10 21:25:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA07215 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:25:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles351.castles.com [208.214.167.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA07210 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:24:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA86573; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:21:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901110521.VAA86573@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Steve Kargl cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), brian@Awfulhak.org, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:22:59 PST." <199901110522.VAA05798@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:21:09 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > According to Mike Smith: > > Since it's quite clear you really haven't grasped the core of the > > problem, I'll present you with a simple example, and you can explain to > > me how you propose to deal with it. > > > > I have a driver for a new peripheral. It's from a vendor that doesn't > > want to distribute source code, so the driver comes as a KLD module. > > The driver has a number of tuning options, which are exposed via the > > sysctl MIB. > > Let's call this driver foobar. > > > Please explain how I am to find documentation for these tuning options > > in the system manpages. Suggest how your approach is better than, for > > man foobar Care to post the code fragment that sysctl uses to know to execute this when it's asked for a description of the OIDs from the foobar module, and the filter that it will use to extract the one-line descriptions from this manpage, and then how you plan to fit all of this on a compact system (manpages, manpage processing tools, extra bloat in sysctl) where < 20k of kernel stuffage (about 5k on disk) would have done the trick? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message